Re: Could not get shadow information for NOUSER

"Scott Taylor" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.admin
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, July 5, 2006 16:38, [email protected] wrote:
> How about just trying to disable the ping enquiries which precede these
> snooper attacks:
>
>   echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all
>
>   echo 0 to reverse the command

Interesting.  Where is this located?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Taylor <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent:   Wed, 5 Jul 2006 08:02:59 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Re: Could not get shadow information for NOUSER
>
>
> Oh, and yes there is a NOUSER user in the system.
>
> On Wed, July 5, 2006 07:53, Scott Taylor wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have a CentOS 4.2 server that gives me these error messages in my
>> /var/log/secure file, I realise that these are SSH attacks, but where
>> does the extra line "Could not get shadow information for NOUSER" come
>> from?  This doesn't make any sense.  I have many servers running CentOS
>> 4.2, but don't get this error message on any others.  I hate junk in my
>> logs.

>> Is there any way to get rid of it?
>>
>> Invalid user guest from ::ffff:210.210.4.60
>> error: Could not get shadow information for NOUSER
>> Failed password for invalid user guest from ::ffff:210.210.4.60 port
> 55073
>> ssh2
>>
>> Cheers.


--
Scott

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